Christian Romstet
Christian Romstet (* 1640 in Weimar ; † November 21, 1721 in Leipzig ) was a German draftsman and engraver of the Baroque era .
Life
Christian Romstet (also Rumstet , Romstedt or Rombstedt ) was born in Weimar in 1640 and was baptized as an Evangelical Lutheran on February 28, 1640 in the town church of St. Peter and Paul . His father was Christian Wilhelm Rombstedt, who was accepted into the Weimar citizenship in 1629, council chamberlain in 1647 and city judge in Weimar in 1650. Only at the age of 31 years enrolled Christian Romstet in the summer months in 1671 at the University of Leipzig . For a while he lived in the Red College . He was a student of Johann Dürr and worked temporarily with Johann Caspar Höckner (1629–1671). On the prints with Höckner, his surname is Rumstet or Rombstedt in the signature , while Romstet is the surname in his sole works . Romstet mainly did portraits. He died on November 21, 1721 in Leipzig.
Christian Romstet engraved all the portraits of the Leipzig clergy. These stitches were intended for trade and had to be cheap so that he didn't spend much time on the artistic and decorative trappings. He seems to have engraved them for his own publishing house and not for the engraver and copperplate publisher Johannes (also Johann ) Frentzel (1609–1674), whose published and own lithographs were known for their lavish trappings. He spent more time on portrait prints, which he made as private commissions for families. The heads are sharply modeled and highly characteristic. From the time he was no longer under the spell of Frentzel, their frames are kept relatively simple. Christian Romstet has occasionally tried his hand at mezzotint , such as the portrait of Franz Heinrich Höltich . Most of the portraits were engraved or scraped from oil paintings , but some were also based on life.
Works (selection)
Prince Johann VI. von Anhalt-Zerbst , after a painting by Simon Heüsslin, for Johannes Frentzel, Fürstlich Waldecksche Hofbibliothek
Alexander Marschall von Bieberstein , Princely Waldeck Court Library
Johann Benedikt Carpzov I , Trier City Library
Michael Heinrich Horn , Duke August Library
Johannes Hülsemann , Trier City Library
Thomas Ittig , Trier City Library
Adam Krieger , collaboration with Johann Caspar Höckner, Herzog August Bibliothek
Georg Lehmann , for Johannes Frentzel, Trier City Library
Johann Georg Leuckfeld , Trier City Library
Lucas Leyser , son of Polykarp Leyser II , Herzog August Bibliothek
Johann Christoph Marci , Herzog August Library
Gottfried Olearius , Duke August Library
Christoph Pincker jun. , Princely Waldeck Court Library
Samuel Pomarius , based on a painting (now in the Lübeck City Library ), Herzog August Bibliothek
Elias Siegismund Reinhart , after a painting by Benjamin von Block , Herzog August Bibliothek
Johannes Riemer , Austrian National Library
Petrus Scheele , Duke August Library
Heinrich Schütz , after a painting by Christoph Spätner, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Christian Wildvogel , after a painting by Michael Jäger, Trier City Library
Note on literature
Georg Kaspar Nagler assumed in his New General Artists Lexicon in 1843 that there were two Romstets. In 1860 he concluded in his lexicon Die Monogrammisten that it must be father and son with the same name. In 1921, Hermann Alexander Müller and Hans Wolfgang Singer used Nagler's artist lexicon as a source for their general artist lexicon . The first to actually do some research was Gustav Wustmann from Leipzig, who in 1907 in his book Der Leipziger Kupferstich in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries noticed that there was only one Romstet. Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker also assumed a Romstet in their General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present in 1934 .
literature
- Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon , Fleischmann, 1843 ( digitized version )
- Georg Kaspar Nagler: The Monogrammists: and those known and unknown artists of all schools ... , Hirth , 1860 ( digitized )
- Gustav Wustmann : The Leipzig copperplate engraving in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries . In: New Year's Sheets of the Library and Archives of the City of Leipzig , Volume III. JB Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1907, pp. 22, 27, 38 and 44 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
- Hermann Alexander Müller and Hans Wolfgang Singer : General Artist Lexicon . Volume 5. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main, 1921, p. 102 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
- Romstet (Romsted, Rumstet), Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 265 .
Web links
- Publications by and about Christian Romstet in VD 17 .
- Publications by and about Christian Romstet in VD 18 .
- Works by and about Christian Romstet in the German Digital Library
- Christian Romstet in the digital portrait index
- Christian Romstet at Tripota , the Trier portrait database
- Christian Romstet in the City History Museum Leipzig (there are also pictures on pages 2 and 3)
- Christian Romstet in the Deutsche Fotothek
- Christian Romstet at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- Christian Romstet at bildindex , the photo archive Photo Marburg
- Christian Romstet in the Royal Collection Trust
- Christian Romstet in the State and University Library Hamburg ( enter Romstet as a search term)
- Christian Romstet at Museums Nord
- Christian Romstet at Museum-Digital
- Christian Romstet in the portrait collection of USB Cologne
- Christian Romstet in the coordination office for the loss of cultural property Lost Art
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the father
- ↑ Höckner's birth and death dates in the Magazin der Sächsischen Geschichte , Johann Christian Hasche , 1887
- ↑ Signature Rombstedt
- ↑ Source: Gustav Wustmann: The Leipzig copperplate engraving in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries , digitized under literature
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Romstet, Christian |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rumstet, Christian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German draftsman and engraver |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1640 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1721 |
Place of death | Leipzig |